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Undergraduate student Natalie Golding and Professor J﻿ohn Rose have published a paper in the Journal of Intellectual Disabilities which explores support workers' attitudes and knowledge towards individuals with intellectual disabilities to see whether a new attitude scale needs to be developed.

A paper published in December 2010 by Abbye Andrews (undergraduate student currently training to become a clinical psychologist) and Profess﻿or John Rose has been cited as the most read article within the Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities.

Brain oscillations are rhythmic electrical fluctuations that affect a number of cognitive functions, including memory. But can they be used to change our behaviour? Dr Simon Hanslmayr and colleagues tested this question in a paper.

Doctoral researchers from the School of Psychology recently ran a public engagement event at the New Library in Birmingham city centre. This was organised as part of the ESRC festival of Social Sciences and involved a day of posters and interactive activities with members of the public in order to present and discuss research that is taking place at the University.

This is a new four year doctoral programme that started in the School of Psychology this September. It is the first practitioner Doctorate in the UK to provide people who complete the course eligibility to practice in two different branches of applied psychology, in this case Forensic and Clinical Psychology.

The University of Birmingham has made an impressive 15 place rise to 62nd in this year's QS World University Rankings, cementing its position in the top 100 universities globally and placing it 10th in the UK.

The School of Psychology are very pleased to have achieved their best ever results in the National Student Survey this year including 'personal best' scores in four of the six main assessment areas and their highest overall satisfaction rating ever.